---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Candidate for Circuit Court Judge Defeated in Primary Election"
description: "Election Law - Candidate for Circuit Court Judge Defeated in Primary Election"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1121"
citation: "Maryland SB 1121 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Courts and Court Personnel - Statewide"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-21"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e04c47dc-11a6-40c1-b860-b5f4473102ea"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1121&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "320c4813c60cced84f2fe8f782da8b8fc1d02056c9497a5a592a641cdf693dee"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland SB 1121 (2017) — Election Law - Candidate for Circuit Court Judge Defeated in Primary Election

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb1121f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **107–5** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Conway — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-21** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-28** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2017-03-01** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Special Order until 3/27 (Senator Jennings) Adopted
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (46-1) `passage`
- **2017-03-28** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Judiciary and Ways and Means
- **2017-04-04** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
- **2017-04-05** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (107-5) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e04c47dc-11a6-40c1-b860-b5f4473102ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).